Agreed. This is an album which has been so dangerously open to being a caricature of itself, and that goes back 40+ years. It still stands, and I say that from my first memory of hearing it when the 8-track from Columbia Music Club was unwrapped. (Thanks Mom!)
My dad was a huge Joel fan in the 80s when i a kid. After he passed away in the 90s anything Billy Joel always reminds me of him smiling on Joan's Beach or RM State Park.
i love how the beginning and the end of the song have a whole different feel to the music in between, just as if the song itself is a representation of the "stranger" inside of you
Billy Joel revealed in an interview that he no longer performs the "The Stranger" Song in Concert, and hasn't done for Years. He states that the reason is that his Band Musicians always pull funny faces, put on silly masks or hats and do whatever it takes to make him laugh. As a result, he is incapable of whistling the Introduction to this Song because they always make him crack up.
If I had to name the most underrated song Billy Joel has ever recorded, it'd probably be this one. I thought it was awesome when I first heard it, and I still think it's awesome now. B-)
+KevinR1138 It wasn't a chart hit as a single, the album was. Not sure if it was even released as a single. Four hits from this album, The Stranger wasn't one of them, so it is in fact, very underrated.
That piano playing and that whistling have haunted me for over 40 years... when I hear this it transports me back to a time that is long gone - the late 70's. So much life that has been lived and so much has changed. It is a mix of elation and sadness but that is life.
I have been listening to this song since the early 90's back when my pops LOVED listening to Classic Rock and was all he listened to. I think about this song all the time because of the whistle, and now more so than before because of him. Damn do I miss him. 😢 I can see how it haunts you now though. It takes you back to other times.
@@ZLRob Sorry for your loss Roberto. I also lost my dad a couple of years ago and unknowing to me, my sister played a song at his services that my dad used to sing all the time when we were young kids. Completely lost it when that happened. Can't listen to it anymore. An old 1940's song called kiss me once, kiss me twice and kiss me once again.
@@Howie875 yeah, was a big hit during the war. Understandably, for those who left loved ones behind. My father died back in 2015, I came back from the war, previously joking about his fighting the Battle of Fort Dix, as he had earlier lied about his age to join the Marines and just before ship-out, my grandmother arrived and told the Corps she never signed him in and he was under age. So, he had to wait to be of age to join the Army, waivered in and went 82nd Airborne. By the time he finished training, the war was over and he was assigned to Fort Dix. Came back from our recent wars and told him, with "The Stranger" eyes, "You didn't miss anything fun or especially worthy". He never asked about my experiences, which I only ever told my wife some of the worst. My wife got to see The Stranger once, a violent crime was being attempted against us and I reacted to counter and end the threat. She was literally the only person on this planet that could stop me from killing the bastard. Suffice it to say, the ne'er-do-well won't attempt to do ill violently again, but the last time I looked, still is alive and doing better. Just with one limb not working at all and another working not exceptionally well. Living in a rather, erm, colorfully interesting neighborhood (not racial, but, well mixed and with a thriving criminal element due to inner city politics and policing insanity (we literally were the disciplinary district, all fuck-ups got assigned to us, as well as corrupt cops that are about to be either fired or prosecuted successfully), a few neighbors got to see that side of me. After seeing The Stranger, they avoided me. Pity, I missed babysitting their kids. My usual name for that side is, The Monster. Rules of engagement, end the fight right now, as ugly as possible and there are no rules. But then, I was dealing with terrorists, who didn't sign the Geneva or Hague Conventions. So, I literally terrorized actual terrorists. My preferred interaction, enter village, conduct a recipe exchange. Find common ground is the 101 of early contact, build upon that and well, we all eat and enjoy new tasty foods. Being a reformed chef, that's second nature to me anyway. Being of Sicilian familial stock, spices and me are ancient friends. As well as a fairly well intermixed cultural exchange from Islamic occupation of the island. Jesus, this is the most I've said about the general experience in around a decade. Must be getting soft in my elderhood.
Oh i wanna thank you for sharing this memory🥰 you my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope you keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤
This song is so psychological, but Billy Joel isn't predatory about it. He doesn't try to cut you - he just lets you explore in a musical Universe of magic and genius.
We lost our dear Dad November last year. He had great taste in music and I can still hear him whistling the intro along with Billy back in the late 70's. Thanks for the fond memories. Love you forever Dad !
When this album came out my best friend and I played so many times is stupid, now she is gone but I still play it. We also saw you in concert, Thank you :)
very important meaning in this song. And it applies to non romantic relationships as well. Everyone has levels of what they will disclose, uniquely to every single person in their life.
I was born in 1978 and I became obsessed with this song. I kept looking at the cover, over and over, asking my mother "Mom, who is the stranger?" and she would reply with her voice of mystery... "That's the thing Billy...no one knows who the stranger is." And on and on I'd ask my mother the same question, and she would give me the same exact answer, smiling. I listen to the lyrics now and I realize why she was smiling so much, before lifting the needle on the record player, as the whistling starts again...
This is a pretty example of how the hell he got Christy. He didn't leave a love song just razor sharp words describing emotions. Where's he these days. For every action is an equal or greater reaction. Thanks Mr Joel you created a historical set of music that will never become less then magical.
I was born in "74", I grew up listening to. This album, Queen , Elo, Floyd, Zeppline, Stones, & many more ! " But this man started it all for me!.. He is a King to me!.... Thank you Billie'!...
Every time I hear his whistle at the beginning and ending of this song, it just brings such roaring emotions out of me.. I'm always in tears for no good reason, but the simple fact that I truly adore this man and would die if I ever was able to see him in concert. To many more years of listening to this glorious human being!! Thank you Billy for the blessings you've given to me as well as this world!!!
Well we all have a face That we hide away forever And we take them out and show ourselves When everyone has gone Some are satin, some are steel Some are silk and some are leather They're the faces of the stranger But we love to try them on Well we all fall in love But we disregard the danger Though we share so many secrets There are some we never tell Why were you so surprised That you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover See the stranger in yourself? Don't be afraid to try again Everyone goes south Every now and then, ooh You've done it, why can't someone else? You should know by now You've been there yourself Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer Then I came home to a woman That I could not recognize When I pressed her for a reason She refused to even answer It was then I felt the stranger Kick me right between the eyes Well we all fall in love But we disregard the danger Though we share so many secrets There are some we never tell Why were you so surprised That you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover See the stranger in yourself? Don't be afraid to try again Everyone goes south Every now and then, ooh You've done it, why can't someone else? You should know by now You've been there yourself You may never understand How the stranger is inspired But he isn't always evil And he is not always wrong Though you drown in good intentions You will never quench the fire You'll give in to your desire When the stranger comes along
@ Mark Angelo Crueta - it's the only part of the song I like & I'm looking for the version that has no lyrics & just those parts. I can't remember what it's called (I know it was also called "The Stranger"), I just know it was on that album as I used to have the cassette.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
When "The Stranger" was getting heavy air play, I was dating the woman that would later become my wife. At one point, I took my future wife and her eight-year-old daughter to "The Last Exit," which was a coffee shop in Seattle's University District back in the days before Starbucks became a thing. Just before we went in, I told my then future daughter and her mom that I was going to whistle the first few notes of "The Stranger" as we walked in, and I was going to stop at the point where the melody went from a low note to a high note, and for them to pay attention to what the customers did. So. We walk in, I whistle the intro, and stop .... and after a few seconds, a few people started whistling at the point where I left off. My daughter said, "Wow, Dad!" and even her mom was impressed.
My gosh the MEMORIES of my childhood are so powerful when I listen to this!!! I can literally SEE my older brothers playing stickball in the street in front of our house, while I, the little sister, sit on the curb next to the 8 track player, playing this entire album. These memories are GOLDEN to me and I have a tear in my eye while I type this. ❤️
This song turned out to be so prophetic as in Dec. 1980 my fiancée said goodbye after many years together. It was then I felt the stranger kick me right between the eyes.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
thanks for coming back, @@Lakeithstanfield3. We sang a small selection of BJ's songs as choral arrangements while I was in high school and later still in community college. "New York State of Mind" helped us fundraise for a trip we took to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where we (SWOCC Vocal Jazz and Band Ensemble) sang live on-stage. He helped make some dreams come true already, so... here's to the Piano Man and his Second Wind. 🎼
This is my most favorite Billy Joel song. 1. Because of the message and because of it being a great song. And 2. Because it is right within my range and very easy for me to sing. I can hit every single note.
The beautiful, haunting, melancholy whistling of this great song just popped into my head. I hadn't heard it in so long, I had to play it over and over in my mind until it suddenly came to me that it was Billy Joel! I immediately came here and searched for, Billy Joel whistling, because I couldn't think of the title. Thank heavens for RUclips; Billy Joel, The Stranger! ❤
I came here because of Dr. Romantic 3. Master Kim used to play this song. My heart was already overwhelmed when the series started because I knew then that the inspiring lessons that Master Kim would always impart would come too. Nonetheless, this song is full of good messages too. It only inspires me so much to go on with my medical journey. Don't be afraid to try again Everyone goes south Every now and then🎶🎶
I've loved Billy for all of my adult life. Understandably, as a Brit in my early 30s, I have barely any peers who appreciate his talents. Now with the success of The Boys, younger audiences will see Billy as more than just 'Uptown Girl'.
I have known and liked this song my whole life (I was born in 1980) and then it came on at the bar I work at a couple of weeks ago and it hit a whole different way. This song is A MASTERPIECE inside and out, lyrically and musically just really captures the sound of the late 70's soft rock meets disco vibe. By far my favorite Billy Joel song.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
This might be my personal favourite title track of any of his albums. In fact, this was my favourite song of his for a brief period. I love the lyrics. They’re moderately relatable to me.
The stranger and much of this album reminds me of a good friend and neighbor who died horribly in a car wreck right after finally graduating college. It took several days to succumb to his grievous head injuries. He was the passenger in another's car. He was a huge Billy Joel fan and if I remember he just got engaged
The post-chorus/bridge ("don't be afraid to try again...") always brings a weird smirk on my face, that almost feels like a defense mechanism to stop my eyes from welling up... I can't explain it better than that. It's true that almost all of Billy's songs stir up a multitude of feelings, emotions, and involuntary reactions, in ways that very few (if any) other songwriters are able to. He's a genius.
I was shopping for food at Piggly wiggly in Cedarburg Wisconsin tonight when this song came on over their Network. I was surprised and thrilled. I hadn't heard it in 35 years. Of course I started singing along It was the highlight of my evening 🙃🌎🚴🎶
Billy can take a love song and say ... now way a minute ,did you ever think about it this way. What a gifted writer that sung his own songs and wrote and played his own music
I love this because it feels like you asked a whistling stranger in the corner of a bar “what brings you here?” In a musical and he starts dancing and singing as the band playing immediately adapts then shifts back to melancholy whistling as he sits down and the lights go dim
I still remember me whisling to this song at 16. I love the two faced musically pieces, you did it masterly, we are a little Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde aren't we?
im blessed...was born in '78 and never knew a world without billy joel and zepplin and skynrd and aerosmith and queen and elton john...rock and roll was great
I'm French and a stranger,a foreigner and absolutely Love this song..The stranger! What a romantic whistle and music and lyrics.Billy Joel rocked it! It was so eigthies,so good so romantic..LOVE IT ..LOVE HIM...PERFECT!!!!!!
This album could be a greatest hits album in and of itself. Movin Out, Vienna, Scenes, Just the Way You Are, Only the Good Die Young, She's Always a Woman to Me, Everybody Has a Dream, on and on.
My fav song on this album. My boyfriend gave me one of the record players he has and told me I could borrow this record and I ended up loving it so he let me keep it. It's the first record I own now lol.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
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This whole album is a masterpiece.
This album was his breakthrough, although I think The Piano Man should have been because he made some great songs before The Stranger.
True
Agreed. This is an album which has been so dangerously open to being a caricature of itself, and that goes back 40+ years. It still stands, and I say that from my first memory of hearing it when the 8-track from Columbia Music Club was unwrapped. (Thanks Mom!)
It’s soooo good
For sure!
"If only you knew your schoolwork like you knew those Billy Joel lyrics.." my Dad in 1978...thanks, Billy!❤
*know
@@patriciamitchell1401-
Captain Obvious Here 😂!
I'm straight recognizing billy joel's genius just now, lol.
@@WhoKnows892 - he knocked it out of the park so many times!
@@HostelObispo My brother loved him and Billy Joel growing up. I was more anti-societal. Billy Joel is high level, possibly setting the highest bar.
I was 16 when I first heard this. I'm now 62, still blown away by it 46 years later.
I'm 45, first heard this when I was 15. Astounding track/album!
私は日本人です。
私が初めてBilly Joelを知ったのは、同じく46年前でした。
それ以来ずっと
Billy Joellが大好きです。
日本でも彼はとても人気があります。
im 22 listening for the first time right now. its cool
I was about 17 or 18 the first time, 62 now... Still great.
I also first heard it when I was 16. Two weeks ago that was!
My dad was a huge Joel fan in the 80s when i a kid. After he passed away in the 90s anything Billy Joel always reminds me of him smiling on Joan's Beach or RM State Park.
Luv this ever evolving recording artist
You are everything
i love how the beginning and the end of the song have a whole different feel to the music in between, just as if the song itself is a representation of the "stranger" inside of you
😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀
wow that is amazing i didnt think of that
Now you get it!🥴
It has the feel of a smoky bar lounge.
oh damn
There's nothing like spinning this song on vinyl late at night!
Mike Davis
That's the life
This aint vinyl, fam...
And drinking red wine watching your wife undress
Ceelo green been ranting about that for 10 yrs
Could it be possible that Billy Joel is underrated.
Billy Joel revealed in an interview that he no longer performs the "The Stranger" Song in Concert, and hasn't done for Years. He states that the reason is that his Band Musicians always pull funny faces, put on silly masks or hats and do whatever it takes to make him laugh. As a result, he is incapable of whistling the Introduction to this Song because they always make him crack up.
+Rebecca Alceus wt-?
+Tomas It's a bot.
+Pedro Serra e Silva It was an Interview Billy Joel gave to James Lipton in "Inside the Actor's Studio".
Ezra Block No its not. I'm just a weirdo.
+Ricardo Velasco Thanks! :)
Absolutely exquisitely definitely a "classic album "2024
Walmart special.......4.99 +tax ...........had it ever since!
If I had to name the most underrated song Billy Joel has ever recorded, it'd probably be this one. I thought it was awesome when I first heard it, and I still think it's awesome now. B-)
I'm not sure I understand how this song is "underrated", it was a pretty damn big hit, one of his earliest.
I dunno ... Whenever I hear people talk about Billy Joel's 1970s work, this song is never mentioned. :-(
Best song ever. Period.
+KevinR1138 It wasn't a chart hit as a single, the album was. Not sure if it was even released as a single. Four hits from this album, The Stranger wasn't one of them, so it is in fact, very underrated.
I think its Vienna
Whether you're 8 or 80, no matter what kind of music you favor, you can't deny this song just rocks.
That piano playing and that whistling have haunted me for over 40 years... when I hear this it transports me back to a time that is long gone - the late 70's. So much life that has been lived and so much has changed. It is a mix of elation and sadness but that is life.
ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 11 is quite relevant to your reflection .
its a dip into time . . . . lol . .. the best is yet to come ...
I have been listening to this song since the early 90's back when my pops LOVED listening to Classic Rock and was all he listened to. I think about this song all the time because of the whistle, and now more so than before because of him. Damn do I miss him. 😢 I can see how it haunts you now though. It takes you back to other times.
@@ZLRob Sorry for your loss Roberto. I also lost my dad a couple of years ago and unknowing to me, my sister played a song at his services that my dad used to sing all the time when we were young kids. Completely lost it when that happened. Can't listen to it anymore. An old 1940's song called kiss me once, kiss me twice and kiss me once again.
@@Howie875 yeah, was a big hit during the war. Understandably, for those who left loved ones behind.
My father died back in 2015, I came back from the war, previously joking about his fighting the Battle of Fort Dix, as he had earlier lied about his age to join the Marines and just before ship-out, my grandmother arrived and told the Corps she never signed him in and he was under age. So, he had to wait to be of age to join the Army, waivered in and went 82nd Airborne. By the time he finished training, the war was over and he was assigned to Fort Dix.
Came back from our recent wars and told him, with "The Stranger" eyes, "You didn't miss anything fun or especially worthy". He never asked about my experiences, which I only ever told my wife some of the worst.
My wife got to see The Stranger once, a violent crime was being attempted against us and I reacted to counter and end the threat. She was literally the only person on this planet that could stop me from killing the bastard.
Suffice it to say, the ne'er-do-well won't attempt to do ill violently again, but the last time I looked, still is alive and doing better. Just with one limb not working at all and another working not exceptionally well.
Living in a rather, erm, colorfully interesting neighborhood (not racial, but, well mixed and with a thriving criminal element due to inner city politics and policing insanity (we literally were the disciplinary district, all fuck-ups got assigned to us, as well as corrupt cops that are about to be either fired or prosecuted successfully), a few neighbors got to see that side of me. After seeing The Stranger, they avoided me.
Pity, I missed babysitting their kids.
My usual name for that side is, The Monster. Rules of engagement, end the fight right now, as ugly as possible and there are no rules.
But then, I was dealing with terrorists, who didn't sign the Geneva or Hague Conventions. So, I literally terrorized actual terrorists.
My preferred interaction, enter village, conduct a recipe exchange. Find common ground is the 101 of early contact, build upon that and well, we all eat and enjoy new tasty foods. Being a reformed chef, that's second nature to me anyway.
Being of Sicilian familial stock, spices and me are ancient friends. As well as a fairly well intermixed cultural exchange from Islamic occupation of the island.
Jesus, this is the most I've said about the general experience in around a decade. Must be getting soft in my elderhood.
Smart, witty, and musically, haunts you. This song still appeals, 42 years later. Mr Joel, take a bow,your greatness endures.
It feels so fresh, a beautiful piece of music
Oh i wanna thank you for sharing this memory🥰 you my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope you keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤
very well-written
This song is so psychological, but Billy Joel isn't predatory about it. He doesn't try to cut you - he just lets you explore in a musical Universe of magic and genius.
Well said.
Lyrics is so simple but darn right meaningful...
psychological and psychedelic.
@@alstinson I see Billy Joel as a story teller. Zappa was the psychedelic...
well said
An absolute masterpiece. Flawless from beginning to end. Not a weak song. It will always go down as one of my greatest albums.
I SO agree with you Michael.
plonker
52nd street is better 🥱
wow, i can't believe your billy joel
I just bought this record for a $1.00 at a garage sale today!
Their loss man!
Great find!!!
Probably my copy. lol.
Why are you listening to it on RUclips?
steal
We lost our dear Dad November last year. He had great taste in music and I can still hear him whistling the intro along with Billy back in the late 70's. Thanks for the fond memories. Love you forever Dad !
When this album came out my best friend and I played so many times is stupid, now she is gone but I still play it. We also saw you in concert, Thank you :)
very important meaning in this song. And it applies to non romantic relationships as well. Everyone has levels of what they will disclose, uniquely to every single person in their life.
This.
Absolutely.
it's been years, and i can never evade the stranger...
Absolutely 😊
I used to be brutally honest until I realized people kinda don't like that. They like the deception dance. So I now I just keep stuff to myself.
_The Stranger_ and _52nd Street_ are among the greatest Rock and Roll albums of the Late 20th Century, IMHO.
Glass Houses and Nylon Curtain are that far off...
How is the stranger a rock album? Most of the songs are piano ballads, barring this one.
Indeed! The Stranger, 52nd Street and Turnstiles!
This is my favorite Billy Joel song.
This is definitely my favorite by Billy Joel
One of Billy's
best songs,it's definitely a classic. Playing on loop,can't get enough
I was born in 1978 and I became obsessed with this song. I kept looking at the cover, over and over, asking my mother "Mom, who is the stranger?" and she would reply with her voice of mystery... "That's the thing Billy...no one knows who the stranger is." And on and on I'd ask my mother the same question, and she would give me the same exact answer, smiling. I listen to the lyrics now and I realize why she was smiling so much, before lifting the needle on the record player, as the whistling starts again...
This is a pretty example of how the hell he got Christy. He didn't leave a love song just razor sharp words describing emotions. Where's he these days. For every action is an equal or greater reaction. Thanks Mr Joel you created a historical set of music that will never become less then magical.
I Love to whistle along with Billy and impress my friends.
I was 26 when this came out. Living in a hippie commune in the Catskills
2:12 YES! I agree that it's like walking down a cobbled street late at night. Must be the whistling bit.
I was born in "74", I grew up listening to. This album, Queen , Elo, Floyd, Zeppline, Stones, & many more ! " But this man started it all for me!.. He is a King to me!.... Thank you Billie'!...
Uff the elo bro >>>
Christ is King❤
How cool is it that this classic can now be heard on The Stand 2020 tv series!?
When used right, songs of yesterday reach new audiences today.
Randall Flagg walking down the street as Champion drove his Family away from Captain Tripps and he was on the back of the car with that smirk
Uncut gems
nostalgic doctor
This song fit's very well on Billy Summers book
My favorite song from this LP ,and without a doubt Billy's masterpiece.
My son is 32 and he is a great pianist and singer. We always whistle this together. ❤️
Every time I hear his whistle at the beginning and ending of this song, it just brings such roaring emotions out of me.. I'm always in tears for no good reason, but the simple fact that I truly adore this man and would die if I ever was able to see him in concert. To many more years of listening to this glorious human being!! Thank you Billy for the blessings you've given to me as well as this world!!!
It took me into adulthood to understand (embarrassingly my 30s) the lyrics the song following on the album has a deeper meaning when you do
The 70's and 60's are the best music.
The 80's and 90's are good too but, this is completely different and it's so good
Fav. Song. I cant believe i lived for 25 years only to discover this song 24 hours ago.
happy 27th birthday
Happy 29th birthday
Happy 30th!
You just old now
😂 Funny
Beware the Walkin’ Dude - #TheStand
It was an interesting choice for the credit roll on Episode 1.
@@Enterthebeercave2049 I kinda liked it, because it fits Howard too
This adaptation is by far the best
@@dagoninfinite I like the new Randall Flagg a lot more than the old one.
kind of odd see him dancing that way in the last episode, but Skarsgård nailed it.
Well we all have a face
That we hide away forever
And we take them out and show ourselves
When everyone has gone
Some are satin, some are steel
Some are silk and some are leather
They're the faces of the stranger
But we love to try them on
Well we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger?
Did you ever let your lover
See the stranger in yourself?
Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south
Every now and then, ooh
You've done it, why can't someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself
Once I used to believe
I was such a great romancer
Then I came home to a woman
That I could not recognize
When I pressed her for a reason
She refused to even answer
It was then I felt the stranger
Kick me right between the eyes
Well we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger?
Did you ever let your lover
See the stranger in yourself?
Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south
Every now and then, ooh
You've done it, why can't someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself
You may never understand
How the stranger is inspired
But he isn't always evil
And he is not always wrong
Though you drown in good intentions
You will never quench the fire
You'll give in to your desire
When the stranger comes along
Great! Thanks 😀😀😁
All the people who post the whole lyrics in music videos are holy people!
Tysm!
not all heroes wear capes
Thanks for copying the description!
@@a_ncr_ranger Except whoever wrote the description couldn't be bothered to do more than the first verse.
This was one of his greatest, this is a truth about life.
Absolutely right!
Damn that intro and conclusion....... keeps me repeating again and again ^-^
I agree! The piano playing just amazing!
there's a video out there that just has the intro/ending instrumental, check it out! Just search for "Billy Joel - The Stranger theme"
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Mark Angelo Crueta - it's the only part of the song I like & I'm looking for the version that has no lyrics & just those parts. I can't remember what it's called (I know it was also called "The Stranger"), I just know it was on that album as I used to have the cassette.
you gotta move on to a song eventually so hard
Same here. Me too.
Been a diehard fan of Billy's for over 43 years and counting! The Stranger without doubt his greatest album!! Perfect album 😊😊
What an amazing album.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
Yes. One of the very few perfect albums in existence.
Timeless. Forever timeless.
That intro is amazing 😍 and the end too... love the piano and whistling
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
The Stranger, 52nd Street, and Glass Houses had to be the best three album run in the history of rock n roll.
Mike Enders No..been others it's up there though in the list..for me Stones..Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile On Main Street IMO tho
Bob Dylan: Bringing it all back home, Highway 61 revisited and Blonde and Blonde
Bob Dylan brining it all back home, the billy Joel’s the stranger and Sticky fingers for me
have you heard of the Beatles m8
@@Beansman-gp3ws And TIME.
Happy Birthday today(May 9) to Billy Joel. Cheers! 🥨
When "The Stranger" was getting heavy air play, I was dating the woman that would later become my wife. At one point, I took my future wife and her eight-year-old daughter to "The Last Exit," which was a coffee shop in Seattle's University District back in the days before Starbucks became a thing.
Just before we went in, I told my then future daughter and her mom that I was going to whistle the first few notes of "The Stranger" as we walked in, and I was going to stop at the point where the melody went from a low note to a high note, and for them to pay attention to what the customers did.
So. We walk in, I whistle the intro, and stop .... and after a few seconds, a few people started whistling at the point where I left off.
My daughter said, "Wow, Dad!" and even her mom was impressed.
My gosh the MEMORIES of my childhood are so powerful when I listen to this!!! I can literally SEE my older brothers playing stickball in the street in front of our house, while I, the little sister, sit on the curb next to the 8 track player, playing this entire album. These memories are GOLDEN to me and I have a tear in my eye while I type this. ❤️
This song turned out to be so prophetic as in Dec. 1980 my fiancée said goodbye after many years together. It was then I felt the stranger kick me right between the eyes.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
thanks for coming back, @@Lakeithstanfield3.
We sang a small selection of BJ's songs as choral arrangements while I was in high school and later still in community college. "New York State of Mind" helped us fundraise for a trip we took to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where we (SWOCC Vocal Jazz and Band Ensemble) sang live on-stage.
He helped make some dreams come true already, so... here's to the Piano Man and his Second Wind. 🎼
I love this song when I first heard it in 1979, and now it’s 2020, the feeling is still the same. It’s amazing.
The Stand brought me here! So glad, this is an amazing track!
As a die hard modern metal fan I always come back to Billy at the end of the night.
So much Truth in these songs
And so many stories
i m now 59 years old and i m listening this song for the first time about 14 years old. Billy Joel is the master !
this entire album slaps. Shows the transition of different natures in the human face.
久しぶりに、この楽曲を…！大好きでよく聴いてました。涙流しながら…。40年前ですかね?アバも、聴いてました!
This is my most favorite Billy Joel song.
1. Because of the message and because of it being a great song.
And 2. Because it is right within my range and very easy for me to sing. I can hit every single note.
My top three are
1. Movin out
2. Big shot
3. Laura
@@000coolkid9 I love Movin Out but I have never listened to the last two.
@@truthseeker9249 u should, those two are insanely great
@@truthseeker9249 big shot is pretty good. Not too sure about Laura tho
i can do the whistle part! lol
추억에 노래..... 시간이 지나도 정말 대단한
Un brano di 46 anni fa, fresco oggi esattamente come allora. Billy Joel superlativo.
The beautiful, haunting, melancholy whistling of this great song just popped into my head. I hadn't heard it in so long, I had to play it over and over in my mind until it suddenly came to me that it was Billy Joel! I immediately came here and searched for, Billy Joel whistling, because I couldn't think of the title. Thank heavens for RUclips; Billy Joel, The Stranger! ❤
Classic track with a Steely Dan feel in places.
Great observation!
Bloody hell, this song deserves so much more recognition than it has. Such a quality production.
One of the greatest albums and piano sets ever
I'm a metal head but damn this whole album was pure genius!
Billy Joel is great
I love how it starts and ends the same way. That whistle and piano, so perfect 🧡🎹
The Stranger album is a must have on anyone's rock music collection.
One of my favorites......Mr. Joel, you are the best songwriter......EVER!!!!!!!!!
I came here because of Dr. Romantic 3. Master Kim used to play this song. My heart was already overwhelmed when the series started because I knew then that the inspiring lessons that Master Kim would always impart would come too. Nonetheless, this song is full of good messages too. It only inspires me so much to go on with my medical journey.
Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south
Every now and then🎶🎶
I've loved Billy for all of my adult life. Understandably, as a Brit in my early 30s, I have barely any peers who appreciate his talents. Now with the success of The Boys, younger audiences will see Billy as more than just 'Uptown Girl'.
I have known and liked this song my whole life (I was born in 1980) and then it came on at the bar I work at a couple of weeks ago and it hit a whole different way. This song is A MASTERPIECE inside and out, lyrically and musically just really captures the sound of the late 70's soft rock meets disco vibe. By far my favorite Billy Joel song.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.
Da 46 anni è il mio LP preferito. Rimarrà nella storia della musica.
0:53 The abrupt transition literally made me laugh the first time I heard it. Love it.
Why were you so surprised, that you never saw the stranger?
This might be my personal favourite title track of any of his albums. In fact, this was my favourite song of his for a brief period.
I love the lyrics. They’re moderately relatable to me.
The Walkin' Dude 🙂
The stranger and much of this album reminds me of a good friend and neighbor who died horribly in a car wreck right after finally graduating college. It took several days to succumb to his grievous head injuries. He was the passenger in another's car. He was a huge Billy Joel fan and if I remember he just got engaged
The post-chorus/bridge ("don't be afraid to try again...") always brings a weird smirk on my face, that almost feels like a defense mechanism to stop my eyes from welling up... I can't explain it better than that.
It's true that almost all of Billy's songs stir up a multitude of feelings, emotions, and involuntary reactions, in ways that very few (if any) other songwriters are able to. He's a genius.
This might be the best album ever!
The instrumentation in the middle part blows me away. Absolutely perfect.
My son is an excellent pianist and we whistle this together. I love this song.
That opening piano riff speaks to me on a spiritual level
I was shopping for food at Piggly wiggly in Cedarburg Wisconsin tonight when this song came on over their Network. I was surprised and thrilled. I hadn't heard it in 35 years. Of course I started singing along
It was the highlight of my evening 🙃🌎🚴🎶
This is Romantic Doctor : Kim Sa Bu OST never failed to make me smile :-)
Billy can take a love song and say ... now way a minute ,did you ever think about it this way. What a gifted writer that sung his own songs and wrote and played his own music
Listened to this LP throughout my college years when it was released. Still sounds great after all these years.
By far his best album. Became a fan the moment I heard it. Saw him in concert in Hartford, CT in 1990’s.
This is my all time favourite Billy Joel song its so atmospheric mysterious and completely brilliant
This album and this song specifically keep me sane. Thank you Billy!
What a song!
I love this because it feels like you asked a whistling stranger in the corner of a bar “what brings you here?” In a musical and he starts dancing and singing as the band playing immediately adapts then shifts back to melancholy whistling as he sits down and the lights go dim
歌えるかどうか心配でしたがいまでは得意な一曲になってます。🙆嬉しく感じます。😄🎶
This is a brilliant song. The whole concept of this song is just brilliant in the music portion of this song is perfect accompaniment to the lyrics….!
that gritty beat... that's some good shit
_I was born in the right generation._
I still remember me whisling to this song at 16. I love the two faced musically pieces, you did it masterly, we are a little Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde aren't we?
Love this album! Reminds me of my sister who passed away in 2010.
RIP my sis passed in 2015. 😢
sad to hear it ❤😢
The Stand brought me here. I haven't heard this song in 40 years.
im blessed...was born in '78 and never knew a world without billy joel and zepplin and skynrd and aerosmith and queen and elton john...rock and roll was great
Was? It still is.
dawordalchemist same here
dawordalchemist what are commas
you sound like a big phony friend
What about KISS
I'm French and a stranger,a foreigner and absolutely Love this song..The stranger! What a romantic whistle and music and lyrics.Billy Joel rocked it! It was so eigthies,so good so romantic..LOVE IT ..LOVE HIM...PERFECT!!!!!!
This album could be a greatest hits album in and of itself. Movin Out, Vienna, Scenes, Just the Way You Are, Only the Good Die Young, She's Always a Woman to Me, Everybody Has a Dream, on and on.
This is one of the most under-appreciated Billy Joel songs in my opinion.
My fav song on this album. My boyfriend gave me one of the record players he has and told me I could borrow this record and I ended up loving it so he let me keep it. It's the first record I own now lol.
You my amazing fan has been a motivation for my career over the years, and each time i hear of good feedbacks like this from the fans i am moved to reply.😊 i hope to keep doing good music and touching the world with my songs🌎❤️.